I'm so old I remember............?

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR when people wrote things down so they wouldn't forget.

 

[mbamike]

ISOIR programming in Fortan

 

[dynk]

ISOIR when all cars had standard shifts

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR when one had to crack one's own nuts as opposed to being able to purchased already cracked ones in markets.

 

[dynk]

ISOIR when State College charged $50 a semester

 

[Triple G]

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ISOIR when a year at Cal Poly cost $2200, tuition, all fees, books, and room and board, everything.

 

[Triple G]

^ Wasn't I the cutest little of fur?

 

[dynk]

ISOIR mixing up bunny poo for raisins

 

[mbamike]

^ ISOIR when raisins came from grapes.

 

[dynk]

ISOIR when everybody went out to shovel in a snow storm

 

[Triple G]

ISOIR when the laundry pick up our things at home, returning the next day, clean,starched and ironed.

I loved the starched, ironed sheets. They seeeds so cool on a hot night.

 

[dynk]

ISOIR people had beepers instead of mobile phones

 

[Triple G]

ISOIR my parents shopping at the butchers, green grocers and dry goods for dinner. No supermarkets.

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR whe cgymike was the pony mule's right hand "man"

 

[dynk]

ISOIR when bakeries actually baked their goods from scratch, not pre-mixes or frozen like now.

 

[Triple G]

ISOIR when Willie was a wee babe and didn't smell like the pony mule yet

 

[dynk]

ISOIR when all we had were cloth diapers

 

[dynk]

ISOIR mustard plasters

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR when people knew what spelunking means, or at least knew how to find out.

 

[dynk]

ISOIR when I explored caves and did not know it had name